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Ben,
I assume Detlef's typo to which you refer is billion vs. million?
If I'm right in this assumption, which please confirm, I understand
that there is some confusion in Europe about US vs. European
definition of billion and million.
So I checked in my Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary.
Billion
1. a thousand million (1,000,000,000 or '10 to the 9th')
2. (now less often, esp. Brit) a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or
'10 to the 12th')
Million
1. a thousand thousand
I don't have a US dictionary to hand.
I hope that this helps clear things up. I believe Detlef thought that
was a difference between the US and Brit definitions, but got them the
wrong way around and then tried to convert (or something?)
Alistair
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Subject: Re: Riefenstahl
Author: bholmes@frii.com (Ben Holmes) at Internet
Date: 8/22/97 11:13 AM
>Just to be precise when talking about 6 billion dead people: >
>Dachau, first of the concentration camps, was set up on March 22,
1933, >near Munich.
>
>Detlef
>
>
Ummm... I don't think so. Typo I assume.
,/8^|
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